Hungarian Historical Phonology táj

táj 'Gegend, Landschaft, Region'

First attestation/Old Hungarian data

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Important dialectal forms

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Uralic/Ugric/Pre-Hungarian reconstruction

? *tVγV

UEW: PUg *taγɜ 'Ort, Stelle; place'

Loan etymology

None suggested

Cognates suggested in earlier research

UEW:

Khanty: East (V) tăγi̮, South (DN) tăχə, North (O) tăχa 'Ort, Stelle'

Commentary

This Ugric etymology is listed as uncertain by the UEW and also DEWOS (1409) mentions the connection with a question mark. Semantically the etymology is unproblematic, but there are some phonological problems: Khanty vocalism points to Proto-Khanty *i̮ (cf. Zhivlov 2007: 282) but this does not correspond regularly to Hungarian á. Hungarian j as the hiatus filler (instead of v) is also unexpected.

Conclusion

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References

DEWOS: 1409: ? PUg

MSzFE

UEW s.v. taγɜ: PUg Uralonet